Baling-press.



A. M. KOLP.

BALING PRESS.

APPLICATION nun 14113.31. 1914.

Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

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BALING PRESS. APPLICATION FILED MAIL31. 1914.

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Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

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ABRAIVE M. KOLP, 0F SALUNGA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BALING-PRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. as, 1914..

Application filed March 31, 1914-. Serial No. 828.56%.

To all whom it may concern 1 Be it known that I, ABRAM M. KoLr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salunga, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Baling-Press, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to baling presses and more particularly to means for feeding material to the presses.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide, above the press, a condensing chamber into which material may be fed 111 any preferred manner and where the material will be initially compressed, means being provided for discharging the compressed material from the condensing chamber and into the press box immediately upon the retraction of the follower within the press box.

A' further object is to provide condensing means movable with the follower and which operates to reduce the area of the condensing chamber during the retraction of the follower, thus initially compressing the material so that the tamper can be brought nto play to direct the compressed materlal into the press box. I

With the foregoing and other ob ects 1n View which will appear as the descriptlon proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of whatis claimed, without departing from the spirit of the 1nvention. 1

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings :Figure 1 is a top plan view of the machine, parts being broken away and the follower being shown at the end of its compression stroke while the compression chamber is shown enlarged to 1ts greatest extent. Fig. 2 is a section on lme A-B Fig. 1 and showing, in full lines, the relative positions of the parts illustrated in Fig. 1 and, in dotted lines, the relat ve positions of the parts during the e ection of the initially compressed material into the press box. Fig. 3 is a section on line CD Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sectlon on line E-F Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the follower for initially compressing or condensing the material and of the means for connecting the same to the follower in the press box. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the guard plates used within the condensing chamber.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a press box of any suitable size and proportions and provided, at one end, with longitudinally projecting angle strips 2 constituting guides between which a follower 3 is adapted to travel when retracted from the press box. This follower has a pitman 4 connected to it and which may be actuated in any preferred manner.

The press box is provided in its top near one end with a feed opening 5, this opening being closed by the follower 3 at all times except when said follower is approaching its extreme outward position.

Erected upon the press box at the sides of the opening 5 are upwardly diverging side walls 6 of a condensing compartment 7. Each of these side walls is provided at one end with an inwardly extending wall 8 hav ing an outwardly or forwardly extending vertical flange 9 and hung within and between these fianges are bars 10 having their intermediate portions offset to form elongated cranks or hangers as shown particularly in Figs. 2 and 4:.

Each of the side walls 6 is provided with suitable reinforcing structures such as indicated generally at 11 and secured upon one of these structures and adjacent the ends of the side wall mounted thereon are upstand ing brackets 12 between which extends the frame 13 of an endless conveyer 14-. This frame 13 bridges the condensing chamber 7 and bears downwardly upon both walls 6 thereof, the brackets 12 engaging the frame adjacent the upper edge of one of the walls 6 while the upper edge portion of the other wall 6 is engaged by the depending end member 15 of the frame 13. Thus the upper end portions of the walls are tied together by the frame 13. The end member 15 is held one of which is adapted to receive a pin 18 which enters the frame 13. Thus angular adjustment of said frame 13 can be effected.

The endless conveyer 141- is mounted on rollers 19 or the like, one of these rollers being provided with a sprocket 20 designed to receive motion, through a chain 21, from a sprocket 22 secured to one end portion of a crank shaft 23. This crank shaft is journaled within standards 2% upstanding from the sides of the frame 13 above one side portion of the condensing chamber 7 and any suitable means, not shown, may be provided for actuating the crank shaft 23. This crank shaft is provided with preferably two oppositely disposed cranks 25, as shown in Fig. 2, each crank being pivotally engaged by a toothed feed bar 26 having an upstanding toothed tongue 27 at that end thereof nearest the conveyer let. The opposite end of each bar 26 is slidably mounted upon the end member 15 of the frame 13 and within an upstanding guide voke 28 upon said end member. A cushioning spring 29 may be carried by each bar 26 and within the yoke 28. Thus it will be seen that when the shaft 23 is rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 3, the conveyer 14; will be driven in the direction indicated by the arrow in said figure. Consequently any material placed on the conveyer will be fed to position under the upstanding toothed tongues 27 on the bars 26 and will be drawn downwardly by said tongues into the chamber 7 where it will be engaged by the toothed bars 26 and drawn transversely of the chamber 7. The bars 26 will of course be given a combined sliding and circular movement.

For the purpose of initially condensing the material within the chamber 7 prior to its being fed into the press box 1, a follower such as shown in detail in Fig. 5 is employed. This follower includes a head 30 designed to fit snugly between and against the side walls 6, said head having side wings 31 designed to bear against said side walls and having a top cutoff plate 32 movable in a path close to the plane occupied by the lower edges of the frame 13.

The head 30 is fixedly connected to arms 33 upstanding from coupling bars 341- which are slidably mounted on the press box 1 and within the condensing chamber 7, these bars extending under the inwardly extended wall 8 and being connected to the follower 3 by means of brackets 35 secured to the sides of the follower 3. Guard plates 36 are hung from the upper 'ed es of the side walls 6 and are adapted to sli' e therealong, these guard plates'being extended downwardly and over the bars 34 and concealing the wings 31. They said guard plates 36 are substantially equal in width to the inlet opening 5.

By referring particularly to Fig. 2, it will be seen that when the fol1ower3 is shifted inwardly to its point of greatest compression, the head 30 is shifted longitudinally to a point remote from the o ening 5 so that the area of the condensing dhamber 7 is thus greatly increased, that portion of the top of the press box between the head 30 and the opening 5 forming the bottom of the condensto the arm, this weight projecting into'the path of the follower 3 so that, when the follower approaches the outer limit of its move ment, it will strike against the weight and thus cause the tamper 37 to. swing downwardly into the condensing chamber 7. When, however, the follower 3 is projected into the press box, the weight 38 will elevate the tamper 37 to its initial position. It is of course to the understood that any other means can be employed for actuatin tamper 37 and said tamper can be 0 any other construction than that illustrated.

When shaft 23 is actuated the conveyer 1-1- will direct material to the understanding tongues 27 and said tongues will be actuated in the manner herein described so as to pack the said material downwardly within the condensing chamber where it will be shifted transversely of the chamber by the toothed bars 26, this operation of compression taking place directly above that portion of the top of the press box located in front of the head 30 and above the, closed opening 5, as shown in Fig. 2.

The mechanism provided for actuating the follower 3 is so timed relative to the packingand feeding mechanism that, when a predetermined amount of material has been condensed within the chamber 7, the follower 3 will be retracted from under the opening 5 and, during the movement of this follower the head 30, through its connecting bars 34 and brackets 35 will be drawn longitudinally along the top of the press box, thus reducing the area of the condensing chamber 7 and initially compressing the material directly above the opening 5. During the completion of the outward stroke of the follower 3,the feeding finger or tamper 37 will be actuated so as to move downwardly into the condensing chamber and force the initially compressed material through the opening 5 and into the path of the follower 3. During the return or compression stroke of the follower, this material will be pushed forward into the press box while the head 30 will also be pushed forward, thus enlarging the the t at opposite sides area of the compression chamber 7 whereupon a further supply of material can be condensed in the manner hereinbefore set forth. While the head 30 is in its forward or compressing position, the plate 32 assumes a position under the packing bars and tongues 26 and 27, thus preventing additional material being fed by the conveyer 14 into the chamber 7 When, however, the head 30 is moved back to the position shown by full lines in Fig. 2, any material which may have been deposited onto the plate 32 and in engagement with the packing bars 26 and tongues 27, will be directed downwardly into the enlarged condensing chamber.

The bars 10 hereinbefore described and which form hangers extending between walls 8, will swing outwardly under the action of the compressed material within the compression chamber 7, thus to relieve the walls '8 of excessive pressure.

The guard plates 36 will travel with the head 32 and its wings 31 and prevent material from being packed downwardly between the arms or bars 3d and the side walls 6.

As before pointed out, the conveyer 14 can be adjusted angularly so as to extend either horizontally or at an incline.

What is claimed is 1. The combination with a press box having an inlet in the top thereof, and a follower adapted to close the inlet during its forward movement and to open the inlet during its outward movement, of upwardly diverging walls secured upon the press box of the inlet, a head slidably mounted between said walls and upon the press box, wings upon the head and engaging said walls, bars fixedly connected to the head and movably mounted upon the top of the press box, connections between said bars and the follower whereby the head and follower are caused to move together, and bails connecting the side walls at one end and in the path of the head, said head and bails cooperating to condense material placed between the walls during the outward movement of the follower.

2. The combination with a press box having an inlet in the top thereof, and a follower adapted to close the inlet during its forward movement and to open the inlet.

during its outward movement, of upwardly diverging walls secured upon the press box at opposite sides of the inlet, a head slidably mounted between said walls and upon the press box, wings upon the head and engaging said walls, bars fixedly connected to the head and movably mounted upon the top of the press box, connections between said bars and the follower whereby the head and follower are caused to move together, bails connecting the side walls at one end and in the path of the head, said head and bails cooperating to condense material placed between the walls during the outward movement of the follower, means extending across the space between the upstanding walls, the bails, and the head for feeding material to said space during the inward movement of the follower, and means carried by the head for cutting off the supply of material during the outward movement of the head and the condensing of the material in the path of the head.

3. The combination with a press box having an inlet in the top thereof and a follower mounted for reciprocation within the box, of upwardly extending side walls fixedly mounted on the press box at opposite sides of the inlet, a connection between said walls at one end, a head mounted to slide between and extending up to the walls, said head, walls and connection forming a condensing chamber, bars fixedly connected to the head and slidable on the press box, connections between the bars and the follower, said head and the connections between the walls cooperating to condense material within the chamber during the outward movement of the follower, means extending transversely across the condensing chamber for feeding material into the condensing chamber, and -means upon the head for passing under the feeding means to cut off the supply of material to the condensing chamber during the compression of the material therein by the head.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ABRAM M. KOLP.

Witnesses:

HENRY R. BLENDER, J. WAYNE AUNcsT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. 0." 

